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19Dimensions not types: On the phenomenology of premonitory urges in Tourette SyndromePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 35 (1): 25-42. 2024.The use of philosophical phenomenology for conceptual debates in psychiatric nosology and psychopathology is beginning to be recognized. In this paper, we extend this trajectory to include Tourette Syndrome, focusing on so-called premonitory urges (PU) preceding Tourettic tics. We clarify some inconsistencies around typology in both phenomenological description and medical classification (i.e., in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, Text Revision, Internationa…Read more
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19John Llewelyn, Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (1): 44-46. 2003.
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17Time out of Joint 2In Stuart Grant & Jodie McNeilly (eds.), Phenomenology and Temporalisation: Time Happens, Palgrave. 2015.
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14Correction to: Thinking embodiment with genetics: epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivismSynthese 199 (1): 5415-5416. 2021.The article Thinking embodiment with genetics: epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism, written by Maurizio Meloni and Jack Reynolds, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 18 June 2020 without open access. With the author’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 6 November 2020 to ©The Author 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution.
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14Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book examines concepts from across Sartre's career, from his initial views on the "inner life" of conscious experience, to his later conceptions of hope as the binding a…Read more
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11The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2023.This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and …Read more
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11The other of Derridean deconstruction: Levinas, Phenomenology, and the question of responsibilityMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 5 (1). 2001.Derrida has been rather frequently acclaimed for his conception of alterity, which we are told is irrecuperable and beyond the dialectic. However, this essay will argue that his attempts to instantiate an ethics of responsibility to the "otherness of the other" are more problematic than is commonly assumed. Much of Derrida’s work on alterity palpably bears a tension between his emphasis upon an absolute and irrecuperable notion of alterity that is always deferred and always ‘to come’, and his si…Read more
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10Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (edited book)Acumen Publishing. 2008.Presents a guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a range of disciplines. This book presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existentialism, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and society.
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10Phenomenological Interviews and Tourette'sPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (1): 49-53. 2024.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Phenomenological Interviews and Tourette'sThe authors report no conflicts of interest.We appreciate the responses from the two clinicians, Efron and Mathieson. We agree with their reminder about the holistic nature of clinician's engagement (mood, sociality, and work life) and with their emphasis on patient-reported outcome measures, although this is not quite what we did in our interviews. As has recently been recognized in section …Read more
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4Philosophy and/or Politics? Two Trajectories of Philosophy After the Great War and Their ContaminationIn Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs & Jack Reynolds (eds.), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations, Springer. 2017.In this chapter, I revisit the question of the philosophical significance of the Great War upon the trajectory of philosophy in the twentieth century. While accounts of this are very rare in philosophy, and this is itself symptomatic, those that are given are also strangely implausible. They usually assert one of two things: that the War had little or no philosophical significance because most of the major developments had already begun, or—at the opposite extreme—they maintain that nothing was …Read more
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2Framing the Predictive Mind: Why We Should Think Again About DreyfusPhenomenology and Cognitive Science. 2024.In this paper I return to Hubert Dreyfus’ old but influential critique of artificial intelligence, redirecting it towards contemporary predictive processing models of the mind (PP). I focus on Dreyfus’ arguments about the “frame problem” for artificial cognitive systems, and his contrasting account of embodied human skills and expertise. The frame problem presents as a prima facie problem for practical work in AI and robotics, but also for computational views of the mind in general, including fo…Read more
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1Phenomenology and the multi-dimensionality of the bodyIn Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles & Mar Perezts (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organisation Studies. pp. 123-145. 2022.The modern era has witnessed an extraordinary and unprecedented growth in our empirical knowledge regarding the human body. This raises the question: what, if anything, can phenomenology teach us about the body that the empirical sciences cannot? Whereas common sense and empirical sciences begin from the body as straightforwardly and obviously given and go on from there to think about what this thing is, what it is made up of, and how it originated, phenomenology steps back from the straightforw…Read more
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1Derrida has been rather frequently acclaimed for his conception of alterity, which we are told isirrecuperable and beyond the dialectic. However, this essay will argue that his attempts to instantiate anethics of responsibility to the “otherness of the other” are more problematic than is commonly assumed.Much of Derrida’s work on alterity palpably bears a tension between his emphasis upon an absolute andirrecuperable notion of alterity that is always deferred and always ‘to come’, and his simult…Read more
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1Peculiar access : Sartre, self-knowledge, and the question of the irreducibility of the first-person perspectiveIn Talia Morag (ed.), Sartre and Analytic Philosophy, Routledge. 2023.In the debates on phenomenal consciousness that occurred over the last 20 years, Sartre’s analysis of pre-reflective consciousness has often been quoted in defence of a distinction between first- and third-personal modes of givenness that naturalists reject. This distinction aims both at determining the specificity of the access one has to their own thoughts, beliefs, intentions, or desires, and at justifying the particular privilege that one enjoys while making epistemic claims about their own …Read more
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Neither-Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in the "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"In Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Publishing Usa. 2018.In this chapter we examine Merleau-Ponty's chapter, "The Intertwining/The Chiasm", before considering some of the criticisms made by his contemporaries and ‘successors’: Lacan, Irigaray, Levinas, Derrida and Deleuze.
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Jacques Derrida, Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (review)Philosophy in Review 23 94-96. 2003.
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Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Engagement with Merleau-Ponty in Le ToucherSOPHIA: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 47 (3): 311-325. 2008.
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'Captivated by life': The life sciences in the heretical tradition of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and RuyerNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 425-446. 2023.Although their work in the philosophy of biology is not well known, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ruyer all offer interesting and heterodox accounts of the life and environmental sciences and the organism in particular. In this chapter, we discuss their respective views, with a focus on their shared criticisms of Neo- Darwinism and the way this tradition grasped the structural coupling between organism and environment. We also outline some significant differences between each of them concerning …Read more
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Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction (review)Philosophy in Review 24 302-303. 2004.
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Herman Rapaport, Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work (review)Philosophy in Review 24 47-49. 2004.
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Paul Patton and John Protevi, eds., Between Deleuze and Derrida (review)Philosophy in Review 23 399-402. 2003.
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An invitation to philosophyIn Jack Reynolds John Roffe (ed.), Understanding Derrida, Continuum. pp. 1--5. 2004.
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Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (review)Philosophy in Review 25 343-346. 2005.
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John Llewelyn, Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (review)Philosophy in Review 23 44-46. 2003.
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